Order of battle at the Battle of Tsushima
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The fleets at the Battle of Tsushima, 27–28 May 1905.
Japanese Combined Fleet
First Squadron
- First Division (Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō)
- Mikasa (Flagship) (variant of Majestic-class battleship) Captain Hihajiro Ijichi
- Shikishima (Shikishima-class battleship) Captain Izo Teregaki
- Fuji (Fuji-class battleship) Captain Kazu Matsomoto
- Asahi (Variant of Shikishima class) Captain Hikohachi Yamada
- Kasuga (Kasuga-class armoured cruiser)
- Nisshin (Kasuga-class armoured cruiser)
- Tatsuta (Dispatch Vessel)
- First Destroyer Division
- Harusame (Harusame-class destroyer)
- Fubuki (Harusame-class destroyer)
- Ariake (Harusame-class destroyer)
- Akatsuki (Ex-Russian destroyer Reshitel‘nyi)
- Second Destroyer Division
- Oboro (Ikazuchi-class destroyer)
- Inazuma (Ikazuchi-class destroyer)
- Ikazuchi (Ikazuchi-class destroyer)
- Akebono (Ikazuchi-class destroyer)
- Ninth Torpedo-Boat Division
- Aotaka (Hayabusa-class torpedo boat)
- Kari (Hayabusa-class torpedo boat)
- Tsubame (Hayabusa-class torpedo boat)
- Hato (Hayabusa-class torpedo boat)
- Third Division (Vice-Admiral Shigetō Dewa)
- Kasagi (Kasagi-class protected cruiser) Captain Tanin Yamaya
- Chitose (Kasagi-class protected cruiser)
- Niitaka (Niitaka-class protected cruiser)
- Otowa (variant of Niitaka-class protected cruiser)
- Fourth Destroyer Division
- Asagiri (Harusame-class destroyer)
- Murasame (Harusame-class destroyer)
- Shirakumo (Shirakumo-class destroyer)
- Asashio (Shirakumo-class destroyer)
Each carrying 8 x 100 lb Mines
Second Squadron
- Second Division (Vice-Admiral Hikonojō Kamimura)
- Izumo (Flagship) (Izumo-class armoured cruiser)
- Azuma (Armoured cruiser) Rokuro Yashiro
- Tokiwa (Asama-class armoured cruiser) Captain Reijiro Kawashima
- Yakumo (Armoured cruiser)
- Asama (Asama-class armoured cruiser)
- Iwate (Izumo-class armoured cruiser)
- Chihaya (Dispatch Vessel)
- Fifth Destroyer Division
- Shiranui (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Murakumo (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Yugiri (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Kagero (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Third Destroyer Division
- Shinonome (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Usugumo (Murakumo-class destroyer)
- Kasumi (Akatsuki-class destroyer)
- Sazanami (Ikazuchi-class destroyer)
- Fourth Division (Rear-Admiral Sotokichi Uryu)
- Naniwa (Naniwa-class protected cruiser)
- Takachiho (Naniwa-class protected cruiser)
- Akashi (Suma-class protected cruiser)
- Tsushima (Niitaka-class protected cruiser)
Third Squadron
- Fifth Division (Vice-Admiral Shichirō Kataoka)
- Itsukushima (Flagship) (Matsushima-class protected cruiser)
- Chin'en (Rebuilt ex-Chinese turret ship Zhenyuan)
- Matsushima (Matsushima-class protected cruiser)
- Hashidate (Matsushima-class protected cruiser)
- Yaeyama (Dispatch Vessel)
- Eleventh Torpedo-Boat Division
- No. 73
- No. 72
- No. 74
- No. 75
- Sixth Division (Rear-Admiral Togo Masaji)
- Suma (Suma-class protected cruiser)
- Chiyoda (protected cruiser)
- Akitsushima (2nd class protected cruiser)
- Izumi (2nd class protected cruiser)
- Tenth Torpedo-Boat Division
- No. 43
- No. 42
- No. 40
- No. 41
- Fifteenth Torpedo Boat Division
Russian Fleet (Second and Third Pacific Squadrons)
Battle Fleet
- First Division (Vice-Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky)
- Knyaz Suvorov (Fleet Flagship) (Borodino-class battleship) Captain Vasily V. Ignatsius
- Imperator Aleksandr III (Borodino-class battleship) Captain Nikolai M. Bukhvostov
- Borodino (Borodino-class battleship) Captain Petr. I. Serebrennikov
- Oryol (Borodino-class battleship) Captain Nikolai V. Jung
- Second Division (Captain Vladimir I. Bir)[a]
- Oslyabya (Flagship) (Peresvet-class battleship) Captain Vladimir I. Bir
- Sissoi Veliky (Battleship) Captain Mikhail V. Oserov
- Navarin (Variant of Trafalgar-class battleship) Captain Baron B.A. Fitingof
- Admiral Nakhimov (Variant of Imperieuse-class armoured cruiser)
- Third Division (Rear-Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov)
- Imperator Nikolai I (Flagship) (Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship) Captain V. V. Smirnov
- General Admiral Graf Apraksin (Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defence ship) Captain N. G. Liwin
- Admiral Seniavin (Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ship) Captain S. J. Grogoryev
- Admiral Ushakov (Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ship) Captain V.N. Miklukha-Maklai
- Attached Cruisers
- Zhemchug (Izumrud-class protected cruiser)
- Izumrud (Izumrud-class protected cruiser)
- First Cruiser Division (Rear-Admiral Oskar Enkvist)
- Oleg (Flagship) (Bogatyr-class protected cruiser)
- Aurora (Pallada-class protected cruiser)
- Dmitrii Donskoi (Armoured cruiser)
- Vladimir Monomakh (Armoured cruiser)
- Second Scouting Division
- Svetlana (Protected cruiser)
- Ural (Armed merchant cruiser)
Destroyer Flotilla
- First Destroyer Division
- Second Destroyer Division
Transport Squadron
- Auxiliaries
- Almaz (Armed Yacht classified as 2nd class cruiser)
- Anadyr (Transport/Merchant Ship)
- Irtuish (Transport/Merchant Ship)
- Kamchatka (Repair Ship)
- Koreya (Ammunition Ship)
- Rus (Fleet Tug)
- Svir (Fleet Tug)
- Oryol (Hospital Ship)
- Kostroma (Hospital Ship)
Notes
- ^ The Second Division's original Commander, Rear-Admiral Baron Dmitry von Fölkersam, had died of natural causes during the voyage.
References
- Forczyk, Robert. Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship, Yellow Sea 1904–1905. 2009. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-330-8.